Machinery for handling ice.



g No. 790,310. PATEN'I'ED MAY 23, 1905. H. H. PORTER, JE-

. MACHINERY FOR HANDLING ICE."

nruouxon FILED 'smf'r. 5. 1901.

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No. 790.310. PATENTED MAY 23, 1.90.5.

V H. H. PORTER, JR.

7 MACHINERY FOR HANDLING ICE.

APPLICATION nun 8EPT.6.1901.

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No; 790,310. I PATENTED MAY28,1905.

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'MAOHINERY FOR HANDLING ICE.

APPLIQATION FILED SEPT. 5.1991.

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Patented May 23, 1905.

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HENRY H. PORTER, JR,

:OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MACHINERY FOR HANDLING ICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent'No. 790,310, dated May 23, 1905. Application filed September 5 1901. Serial Ila- 74,457.

Be it known that I, HENRY H. PORTER, Jr. acitizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Handling Ice, (Case 13,) of which the following. taken -in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a 2 sp eclficatlon.

This invention has reference to the machinery employed for loading ice-houses, and particularly to the elevating mechanism for raising the ice, and for taking the same from the elevating mechanism, and transferring it;

to the delivery chute by which it is transferred to different parts of the house, or elsewhere. Another object of my invention is to reduce the cost of storing an ice-house, and to make the mechanism for accomplishing such results more compact and simple than that heretofore employed. v p

The above, as well as such other objects as may hereinafter appear, I attain by means of a constructionwhich I have illustrated in preferred form in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a portion of two ice-houses 1 and 2, with'a small space between them, in which is placed the elevating machinery.

Figure 2 is a view taken on the line 2 2 of Figure 1, showing one end of one of the houses, with the elevating mechanism in elevation, and

Figure 3 is a plan view showing a portion of the adjacent ends of the two houses, with the mechanism arranged therebetween.

Referring now more particularly to Figure 2, it will be seen that adjacent to the ice-houses I arrange one or more car tracks 3, upon which the cars of ice 4 are brought in, to a point opposite a delivery trough '5, which discharges on to the elevating mechanism 6, carrying the ice, (some blocks of which are marked 7,) upwardly in a direction shown by the arrow, until it reaches the level of the chute 10, when it strikes an inclined prong or guide 9, attached above the chute 10, in position such, that the blocks of ice, as they are raised by the elevating mechanism, are slid off by contact with the prong 9, into the chute 10, and then slide,

delivered into the ice-house at any desired 'point and elevation, according to the sition of the chutes 10 and 11. As a means for driving the elevating mechanism 6, I have shown an engine 12 geared to the foot shaft 13 by means of a driving chain 14. The chute 10 is made in telescoping parts, being supported vertically by the sides thereof, as will be readily understood, and the weight of the chute is supported by chains or cables, 16, suspended from the overhead beams and wound upon a drum, 20, which is carried by the chute. 5

The shaft of' the drum 20 is provided with a pawl-and-ratchet, 21, and may be turned by a crank on the axle, or by inserting a rod in the holes, 22, or in any convenient manner. The

suspension devices are the same for all the 7 chutes. Since each one is independent, it will beeviolent that all the chutes may be adjusted at any desired inclination in either direction, as well as in height.

The part 9 is secured, preferably, by a pivotal connection to a couple of bracket extensions 15, formed integral or fast with the chute 10, so that as the latter is raised or lowered, or changed in position, the part 9 will move withthe chute. work of filling the house is first commenced, the chute 10 will stand somewhere near the lower portion thereof, and the part 9 will still hear the same relative position with respect to the chute that it does in the view 5 shown in Figure 2. By means, of the suspension devices 16, the chutes 10 and 11 may be adjusted to any desired point, and to have any desired degree of inclination. The lastmentioned capacity of adjustment is very desir- 9 able, in view of the fact that as the temperature changes, the ice slides more or less freely, so that if the inclination of the chutes were fixed, as it is in many cases, the ice at some times would travel too slowly, and have to be pushed along, and at other times would move too rapidly, which would be objectionable also.

By the adjustability and reversibility of the inclination, the adjustability of the height of 1 dispo- 5 5 Thus when the 9 the chutes 10 and 11, and the capacity of the prong 9, to be moved out of the path of the ice, (which capacity it has by virtue of its pivotal connection with the bracket 15,) the mechanism as a whole may be changed from a storing to an emptying device, arranged to deliver ice from the elevating mechanism to the discharge trough 17 whence it may be carried to any desired point, vehicle, or receptacle, this being especially useful in icing refrigerator cars.

In order to determine the quantity of ice elevated, I arrange a mechanical counting device, similar to a cyclometer at 18, constructed to register each block of ice as it passes; the arms of the registering device being adjusted in position to be actuated by the block itself and not engaging the shelf of the elevator.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In ice handling machinery, the combination with a storage receptacle, of means for continuously elevatlng the me from a point adjacent thereto, an adjustable chute arranged alongside said storage receptacle for delivering the icethereto,'and a universally adjustable chute connecting said hoisting mechanism and said side chute, substantially as described.

2. In ice handling machinery, the combination with a storage receptacle, of means for elevating the ice from a point adjacent thereto, a chute arranged alongside said storage receptacle for delivering the ice thereto,and a chute connecting said hoisting mechanism and said side chute, the inclinations whereof are ad justable and reversible, substantially as described.

3. A delivery chute for ice, combined with a device'9 attached thereto, for causing the ice to be delivered to the delivery chute, from an adjacent elevating device, substantially as described.

4. In ice handling machinery, the combination with a storage receptacle, of continuous automatic mechanism for elevating the ice from a point adjacent thereto, and delivering it to said storage receptacle, and mechanism located in the path of the ice as it is transported by said elevating means, constructed to register each block as it passes, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY H. PORTER, JR.

In presence of PAUL SYNNESTVEDT, PAUL CARPENTER. 

